Meet the Speed Sisters, the first all-female auto racing team and part of the Palestinian Motorsport and Motorcycle Federation. Composed of six women, the Speed Sisters represents the diversity of what Palestine has become with racers hailing from the fragmented corners of the West Bank and showing the differences in lifestyle determined by the varied economic opportunities of cities divided by checkpoints, settlements, walls, and different ID cards.

Meet the Speed Sisters, the first all-female auto racing team and part of the Palestinian Motorsport and Motorcycle Federation. Composed of six women, the Speed Sisters represents the diversity of what Palestine has become with racers hailing from the fragmented corners of the West Bank and showing the differences in lifestyle determined by the varied economic opportunities of cities divided by checkpoints, settlements, walls, and different ID cards.

Despite the economic, geographic, and political limitations, the racers improvise and make do like everyone else in Palestine. They throw down traffic cones wherever they find free space to train. A favorite site lies in the shadow of Ofer Prison, one of the largest Israeli prisons in the West Bank that was built to accommodate the mass arrests of the second intifada. Here and in abandoned lots and empty Friday afternoon fruit markets, the racers practice.

Whether the Speed Sisters will prove to be a true sorority of strength and opportunity remains to be seen. They've received a lot attention, but whether that can attract sponsors isn't obvious. (2011-2012)« less